Fernando Lembo di Pino

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fernando lembo di Pino - scribe, calligrapher, painter, was born in 1953 on the Amalfi Coast (Italy), true heart of the Mediterranean area, where he lives and works, although in a rather different domain, as he actually is a teacher of linguistics and philosophy.

gabbiano (“seagull”, as he is generally known and called - or "nightgull", "hermit gull": yorukamome, 「夜かもめ」・「鴎庵先生」 "ou an sensei", being this last one the name he's been "baptized" with by his Japanese haiku Masters and poetry writers) has for about forty years been painting, drawing and designing; numerous worthy exhibitions of his work were often displayed and could be seen in cities and centers of art both in Italy and foreign countries: in his earlier years of activity, mainly paintings and drawings, but also considerable collaborations in theatre scenographies, cartoons and comics, appreciated collections of couture, jewellery and design.

by crossing these paths, he treasured and grew more and more into himself a specific interest in the written Word and the cohabitation of this with the image. it was therefore easy to step into calligraphy and illumination fields, where these two expressive lines coincide since centuries in a perfect balance of arts and moods - a choice that took him to be added after his remarkable works to the selective number of important "hands" in calligraphy domains, and listed within the most prominent calligraphers, both western and eastern: see also 「日本書道」japanese calligraphy today and some of his 書道 pages.

his whole scribe's and illuminator's production is collected since the latest years of XXth century under the signature nova scriptoria - gabbiano.

gabbiano is a Lay Member of the London ancient and exclusive “Society of Scribes and Illuminators” (SSI) where some of his best works can be seen since 2003 on the Lay Members'Day exhibition (SSI events' pages), and is counted among the Maîtres of the “Société des Calligraphes d’Europe”.

[edit] Style

highly interested in both verbal and visual forms of Art and Communication, as a painter gabbiano began to create his original works by mixing the magic and the mood of scenes and views from the farest countries he had visited all around the world with the softest images and colours of his Mediterranean geographies: a strongly personal fusion giving birth to a sort of arcane visions, the "unexisting landscapes", basic theme and leit-motiv of his previous pictorial job.

he always seriously considered himself "an eternal self taught apprentice", only a student avidly observing artists, artisans and crafters - and trying to use of their skills and techniques when melting together all his experiences, in the attempt to reach an unusually unique constructive and creative ability, to produce a truly exclusive piece of work; within this target, the wish to similarly use materials and utensils of unbelievable peculiarity - objects that he himself generally creates or “re-produces”, stubbornly aimed to achieve the creation of wholly original and personal "things".

whether working and studying with a medieval insular parchment, a Japanese juugou or the page of a XVI century missal, he always feels aimed to learn the most ancient handicraft techniques tied to the objects of writing: papers and vellum, natural inks and terræ colours, quills and nibs, metal gildings, as well as the arts of miniature and binding; a minute historical search and a constant wish of respect to the hand cleverness with which every single work he studies was originally created, as well as to the style and the Age he has chosen for that single piece.

he literally "dives" therefore into the same styles and techniques to realise a new work, by the time "mosaicized" matching together all these items, studies and experiences - new "folio", but at all original itself, never a copy neither a re-visitation: briefly, a newborn object "maîtrised” in a totally similar way as an author of other times and countries by repeating and reproposing the same creative and constructive ancient paths.

[edit] Exhibitions

1972 - Cava dei Tirreni, Italy - Abbazia: OMBRE AL CANCELLO, drawings
1973 – London, UK - at “The Finsbury Park Moles”: CANCER MEN...THESE INDIVIDUALS...ARE MARKED FOE, drawings and acrylics
1975 – Salerno, Italy - at the Università degli Studi: IL BLU & LA MELODIA, drawings and gouaches
1977 – Mikonos, Greece - thanks to Kostandi Mavros Arts: UNA CANZONE DI FARFALLE, drawings and oils
1978 – Fès, Maroc - at Abderrasak Al’Lahbi’s Galleries: I MIEI OCCHI DESERTI, drawings and watercolors
1979 – Genova, Italy - presso Cicale Arti: UNA CANZONE DI FARFALLE, drawings and oils
1980 – Nîmes, France - thanks to Lejeune Galeries: I MIEI OCCHI DESERTI, drawings and watercolors
1981 – Ravello, Italy - Chiostro di San Francesco: IN QUESTA STANZA DI PITTORE, oils and gouaches
1982 – Antwerpen, Belgium - at “Redig Maksteekskees’”: L'ÂME D'UN MARIN, oils and gouaches
1983 - Positano, Italy - Azienda Soggiorno e Turismo: L'ÂME D'UN MARIN, oils and gouaches
1984 - Ascoli Piceno, Italy; thanks to Sibillini Arte: IL BLU & LA MELODIA, drawings and gouaches
1985 – Amalfi, Italy - Antichi Arsenali della Repubblica: IL PAESAGGIO INESISTENTE, oils, gouaches, watercolors
1986 – Venezia, Italy - thanks to Xenia Mitteleuropea Arts: IN QUESTA STANZA DI PITTORE, oils and gouaches
1987 – Milano, Brera, Italy - thanks to Tuscano & d’Ocre; FOLIA, paper and vellum
1988 – Gardone Riviera, Italy - “oltre il pennello ‘88” : IL PAESAGGIO INESISTENTE, oils, gouaches, watercolors
1990 – Djerba, Tunisie - pour “paysages méditerranéens”: IL PAESAGGIO INESISTENTE, oils, gouaches, watercolors
1992 – Monte dei Mori, Italy - Salone dei Convegni: FOLIA, paper and vellum
1993 – Urbino, Italy - per “carteggi”: IL PAESAGGIO INESISTENTE; FOLIA, oils and gouaches, paper and vellum
1995 – Sorrento, Italy - per “Arti Per Due Millenni”: FOLIA, paper and vellum
1996 – Trieste, Italy - per “UnterDenLinden ’96”: PENNE D'ANGELO E PAVONE, paper and vellum
1998 - Chieti, Italy - at Corsini & Giuliani’s: PENNE D'ANGELO E PAVONE, paper and vellum
2000 – Lugano, Switzerland - thanks to Julian Ehrenzhäler Kunst: PENNE D'ANGELO E PAVONE; FOLIA, paper and vellum
2001 – Barcelona, Spain - thanks to Artes Nuevas Almeida y Serrano: 12 FOLIA, Amalfi handmade paper, rice paper, papyrus, vellum
2003 – London, UK - The Commonwealth Institute; SSI - lay members’ day: “I AM”, vellum
2004 – London, UK - The King’s College Library; SSI - lay members’ day: “PASSIONE”, vellum
2005 – London, UK - The King’s College Library; SSI - lay members’ day: “WHEREVER YOU MOVE”, vellum; “CAPITAL F”, vellum
2005 – Salerno, Italy - Villa Carrara: retrospettiva (folia e shodou); “PENNE D'ANGELO E PAVONE: GABBIANO – LE PERGAMENE”, vellum, papers
2006 – London, UK - The King’s College Library; SSI - lay members’ day: “THOREAU WORDS”, vellum; “CALLIGRAPHY IS”, paper
2007 – London, UK - The King’s College Library; SSI - lay members’ day: “IN QUESTA STANZA DI PITTORE”, vellum; “LETTER TO THE HISTORY”, paper, objects.
2008 – Tokyo, JP - at The Science and Technical Research Laboratory Hall, thanks to Nakamura Sakuo Sensei: “Kobayashi Issa's world friends”, shodo on paper and silk -
2008 – London, UK - The King’s College Library; SSI - lay members’ day: “俳句の一年・HAIKU FOR ONE YEAR”, vellum and objects; “夢・SWEET DREAMS”, vellum and objects.